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2Only motions to intervene from entities that 

were party to the underlying proceeding will be 

accepted. Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 

FERC ¶ 61,144, at P 39 (2020). 

3Contested proceedings are those where an 

intervenor disputes any material issue of the filing. 

18 CFR 385.2201(c)(1) (2019). 

4Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC 

¶ 61,144, at P 40 (2020). 

5 Id. at P 40. 

6Similarly, the Commission will not re-litigate 

the issuance of an NGA section 3 authorization, 

including whether a proposed project is not 

inconsistent with the public interest and whether 

the Commission’s environmental analysis for the 

permit order complied with NEPA. 

7Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC 

¶ 61,144, at P 40 (2020). 

Energy Projects granted an extension of 

time until September 28, 2020 to 

construct the onshore facilities and 

make them available for service. 

On June 25, 2020, Delphin requested 

an extension of time until September 28, 

2021 to continue to construct the 

onshore facilities. Delphin explains that 

it was continuing to work to develop the 

Project, however, a variety of factors 

complicated the task of negotiating 

offtake agreements with potential 

customers. Delfin states that on July 15, 

2020, via delegated order, the 

Commission granted an extension of 

time until September 28, 2021 to 

construct the onshore facilities and 

make them available for service. (2020 

Extension) 

Delfin states that since the 2020 

Extension, it has continued to work to 

develop the Project. Additionally, Delfin 

asserts that economic conditions are 

recovering from the global coronavirus 

pandemic, and the spot and short-term 

market for the LNG have significantly 

improved. Delfin views these 

developments as a precursor for an 

improved longer-term market, which it 

asserts will support long-term LNG 

offtake contract(s). Accordingly, 

applicants request an extension of time 

until September 28, 2022 to complete 

construction of the onshore facilities 

and place them into service. 

This notice establishes a 15-calendar 

day intervention and comment period 

deadline. Any person wishing to 

comment on Delfin’s request for an 

extension of time may do so. No reply 

comments or answers will be 

considered. If you wish to obtain legal 

status by becoming a party to the 

proceedings for this request, you 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below, file a motion to intervene 

in accordance with the requirements of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the Natural 

Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10).2

As a matter of practice, the 

Commission itself generally acts on 

requests for extensions of time to 

complete construction for Natural Gas 

Act facilities when such requests are 

contested before order issuance. For 

those extension requests that are 

contested,3 the Commission will aim to 

issue an order acting on the request 

within 45 days.4 The Commission will 

address all arguments relating to 

whether the applicant has demonstrated 

there is good cause to grant the 

extension.5 The Commission will not 

consider arguments that re-litigate the 

issuance of the certificate order, 

including whether the Commission 

properly found the project to be in the 

public convenience and necessity and 

whether the Commission’s 

environmental analysis for the 

certificate complied with the National 

Environmental Policy Act.6 At the time 

a pipeline requests an extension of time, 

orders on certificates of public 

convenience and necessity are final and 

the Commission will not re-litigate their 

issuance.7 The OEP Director, or his or 

her designee, will act on all of those 

extension requests that are uncontested. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, The Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://

www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file 

electronically should submit an original 

and three copies of the protest or 

intervention to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on, July 22, 2021. 

Dated: July 7, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–14845 Filed 7–12–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 3253–015] 

Mad River Power Associates; Notice of 

Application Ready for Environmental 

Analysis and Soliciting Comments, 

Recommendations, Terms and 

Conditions, and Prescriptions 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Subsequent 

Minor License. 

b. Project No.: 3253–015. 

c. Date Filed: November 3, 2020. 

d. Applicant: Mad River Power 

Associates (MRPA). 

e. Name of Project: Campton 

Hydroelectric Project (project). 

f. Location: On the Mad River in 

Grafton County, New Hampshire. The 

project occupies approximately 0.05 

acre of federal land administered by the 

U.S. Forest Service. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Ian Clark, 

Mad River Power Associates, 1 Pepsi 

Way, Suite 6n75, Katonah, NY 10536; 

Phone at (914) 297–7645, or email at 

info@dichotomycapital.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Amanda Gill, (202) 

502–6773 or amanda.gill@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions: 60 days 

from the issuance date of this notice; 

reply comments are due 105 days from 

the issuance date of this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

QuickComment.aspx. You must include 

your name and contact information at 

the end of your comments. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or 

(202) 502–8659 (TTY). In lieu of 

electronic filing, you may submit a 


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paper copy. Submissions sent via the 

U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 

to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. Submissions sent via any 

other carrier must be addressed to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. The first page of any filing 

should include docket number P–3253– 

015. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

require all intervenors filing documents 

with the Commission to serve a copy of 

that document on each person on the 

official service list for the project. 

Further, if an intervenor files comments 

or documents with the Commission 

relating to the merits of an issue that 

may affect the responsibilities of a 

particular resource agency, they must 

also serve a copy of the document on 

that resource agency. 

k. This application has been accepted 

and is ready for environmental analysis 

at this time. 

The Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) issued a final rule on July 

15, 2020, revising the regulations under 

40 CFR parts 1500–1518 that federal 

agencies use to implement the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (see 

Update to the Regulations Implementing 

the Procedural Provisions of the 

National Environmental Policy Act, 85 

FR 43,304). The Final Rule became 

effective on and applies to any NEPA 

process begun after September 14, 2020. 

Commission staff intends to conduct its 

NEPA review in accordance with CEQ’s 

new regulations. 

l. Project Description: The project 

consists of: (1) A 22-foot-wide, 24-foothigh concrete intake structure located 

approximately 60 feet upstream of the 

U.S. Forest Service’s Campton Dam on 

the east shoreline of the U.S. Forest 

Service’s Campton Pond, that includes a 

25-foot-long,13-foot-high trashrack with 

1.75-inch clear bar spacing; (2) a 600- 

foot-long, 78-inch-diameter 

underground steel penstock that 

trifurcates into three 48-inch-diameter 

sections measuring 20 feet, 30 feet, and 

43 feet in length, respectively; (3) a 43- 

foot-long, 30-foot-wide powerhouse 

located on the east side of the Mad River 

that contains a 167-kW Francis turbinegenerator unit; (4) two 236-kW 

submersible Flygt turbine-generator 

units located outside of the powerhouse; 

(5) an approximately 55-foot-long, 40- 

foot-wide tailrace; (6) a 200-foot-long 

transmission line and a 33.5-kilovolt 

transformer that connects the generators 

to the electric grid; (7) an Atlantic 

salmon smolt bypass facility consisting 

of an 85-foot-long, 20-inch diameter cast 

iron pipe that empties into an 3.5-footdeep plunge pool approximately 15 feet 

downstream of the dam; and (8) 

appurtenant facilities. The project 

creates an approximately 600-foot-long 

bypassed reach of the Mad River. 

The current license requires: (1) 

Inflow to be discharged over the 

spillway to the bypassed reach during 

periods of non-generation or when 

inflow is less than 25 cfs; (2) a 

minimum flow of 4.5 cfs through the 

Atlantic salmon smolt bypass facility 

during periods of generation or when 

inflow is greater than 25 cfs; and (3) 

operation of the smolt bypass facility 

from mid-April to mid-June. The 

average annual generation of the project 

is currently approximately 1,170 

megawatt-hours (MWh). 

MRPA proposes to: (1) Continue 

operating the project in a run-of-release 

mode; (2) replace one of the 236-kW 

Flygt turbine-generator units with a new 

340-kW Flygt turbine-generator unit, for 

a total installed capacity of 743 kW at 

the project; (2) release a minimum flow 

of 29 cfs or inflow, whichever is less, 

over the dam to the bypassed reach; and 

(3) close the existing smolt bypass 

facility. MRPA estimates that the 

average annual generation of the 

proposed project will be approximately 

1,900 MWh. 

m. A copy of the application can be 

viewed on the Commission’s website at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

All filings must: (1) Bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS,’’ ‘‘REPLY 

COMMENTS,’’ 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS,’’ or 

‘‘PRESCRIPTIONS;’’ (2) set forth in the 

heading the name of the applicant and 

the project number of the application to 

which the filing responds; (3) furnish 

the name, address, and telephone 

number of the person submitting the 

filing; and (4) otherwise comply with 

the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 

through 385.2005. All comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, or prescriptions must set 

forth their evidentiary basis and 

otherwise comply with the requirements 

of 18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain 

copies of the application directly from 

the applicant. Each filing must be 

accompanied by proof of service on all 

persons listed on the service list 

prepared by the Commission in this 

proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 

4.34(b) and 385.2010. 

You may also register online at 

https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/ 

overview to be notified via email of new 

filings and issuances related to this or 

other pending projects. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support. 

n. The applicant must file no later 

than 60 days following the date of 

issuance of this notice: (1) A copy of the 

water quality certification; (2) a copy of 

the request for certification, including 

proof of the date on which the certifying 

agency received the request; or (3) 

evidence of waiver of water quality 

certification. Please note that the 

certification request must comply with 

40 CFR 121.5(b), including 

documentation that a pre-filing meeting 

request was submitted to the certifying 

authority at least 30 days prior to 

submitting the certification request. 

Please also note that the certification 

request must be sent to the certifying 

authority and to the Commission 

concurrently. 

o. Procedural Schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following schedule. Revisions to 

the schedule will be made as 

appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Deadline for filing comments, recommendations, preliminary terms 

and conditions, and preliminary fishway prescriptions.

September 

2021. 

Deadline for filing reply 

comments.

October 2021. 

p. Final amendments to the 

application must be filed with the 

Commission no later than 30 days from 

the issuance date of this notice. 

Dated: July 7, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–14843 Filed 7–12–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: July 15, 2021, 10:00 a.m. 

PLACE: Open to the public via audio 

Webcast only. Join FERC online to listen 

live at http://ferc.capitolconnection.org/. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Agenda. 

* Note—Items listed on the agenda 

may be deleted without further notice. 

This is a list of matters to be 

considered by the Commission. It does 


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